Job 29:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
  • Ps 89:15 : 15 Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?
  • Gen 45:26 : 26 And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.

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